Ways to resolve a name to an IP: #

• Local
  • Can broadcast for name resolution
  • one-to-one DNS name to IP address resolution possible
• Hosts file - Modern hosts automatically map hosts file to the host’s DNS resolver cache
• DNS - Resolves an IP using DNS

DNS Server Settings #

• Windows: ipconfig /all
  • DNS cache: ipconfig /displaydns
• Linux: cat /etc/resolv.conf

Process #

Starting with the local DNS server, the device resolves the name by working up from the root domain and the respective nameservers for those names.